matt but the nl central is a tough div so pitt is competing against the other teams in the central too. tough call. was last year a fluke or the real deal? i think their hitting is just too good to be in 2nd or 3rd place and the cardinals hitters all had monster years so i think pitt will be there again at the top with or without burnett. cole has to get better imo.
RIP Jim Fregosi. You kind of blew the 93 WS but you're still a hero for taking a bunch of bums no one wanted to the WS! RIP big Jim.
I have a 10 game plan for a reason to the pirates, I think this team has so much potential that has yet to show up. I was just listening to Neil Huntington and he has said payroll is growing and they had the highest payroll in team history last month and they have the flex to grow. They offered A.J. a one year 11 million contract before Philly turned over a one year 16 mil.
What is Montgomery going to do? He doesnt want to go through a rebuild because it effects business, as in no one showing up for games. Well, losing doesnt bring people in either. He seems a bit confused to me. Maybe money is first in his heart, not the well being of the Phillies.
will he's an old man and is not very bright. winning brings in the people - period! they need to suck it up and rebuild! this team cannot contend for a championship run so if utley and rollins won't waive their 5/10 rights fine - trade hamels for a ton and lee and sit in last place and make them miserable! and i would never let rollins see that bonus for 2015 either. bench his ass or waive your 5/10 rights! or retire bc you suck!
swept by the pirates. so hard to watch this team! they suck! gotta find takers and eat some money on lee, paps and hamels and use those prospects to rebuild asap! and fire amaro and buy out monty as principle owner! he has to GO!
these philly fan dopes are saying sandberg is a worse manager than charlie manual. are they nuts? he is managing a AAA roster. come on. you can't hold him accountable for his managerial actions with this crappy team. he needs a real team to judge his skills. typical.
what most non-philly don't know is they already have a stud closer waiting in the wings to replace paps. his name is ken giles. paps makes too much money for a losing team to pay for when so many other teams need closers. gotta move him. this current team cannot compete against the top teams of the NL.
no idea why the phils are holding onto hamels like an arab with his last 55 gallon drum of oil. didn't they learn anything from cliff lee? trade him now before he gets hurt. however the offers are a joke. cubs offered starlin castro and javier baez. they phils don't need infielders with their current prospects. they need outfielders out the ass, a catcher or 2 and pitching from any team that wants hamels and papelbon. i love how teams say oh a,b,c and x,y and z are off the table. ok then you're not getting hamels. the phils don't want 6 guys but i love how LA said not seager and the pitcher soria or something like that. houston said no to 5 guys. ok then what do you expect for hamels? it will take at least 1 top prospect to land him. i don't want lower A or AA guys. buzz off.
RUBEN AMARO FIRED AND CONTRACT NOT RENEWED! THANK YOU BUDDHA, GOD, JESUS, JOE BOO, THE RABBIT'S FOOT, THE TORAH, AND SANTA CLAUS! The reign of idiocy and terror is OVER!
lulz--funny. will - no. as i tried to tell mut - they got a ton of youth playing right now and nola, who was drafted last year can play at the mlb level. they got 2 studs in the minors waiting to get called up next year, plus the guys from the hamels, utley and papelbon trades doing well and $MILLIONS coming off the books after Oct 3 2016. so next year they will be a little better. slightly but after that look out. no more cliff lee, utley or ryan howard money owed. phils have a top 5 payroll and new tv deal and a new owner who wants to win and loves to spend. come 2017 and then 2018 they will be back in the playoffs with a mix of developed talent from these trades and drafts and some bought players.
should've traded him that May as his value was never higher! I called it 5 years ago he was a stiff and I was dead on! My brother in law remembers our conversations about him and he says I said as a prospect he was overrated and he had a 2 foot gaping hole in his swing! I'm not always right, but when im on, im on! Phillies Outright Domonic Brown By Steve Adams | October 19, 2015 at 1:50pm CDT The Phillies announced today that former top prospect and starting right fielder Domonic Brown has been outrighted off their 40-man roster. As a player with more than three years of big league service time, Brown will have the option to elect free agency rather than accepting an assignment to Triple-A. Also outrighted were catcher/first baseman Tommy Joseph, outfielder Brian Bogusevic and outfielder Kelly Dugan. Brown, 28, batted just .228/.284/.349 this season ? a disappointing season and a near-mirror image of his 2014 batting line: .235/.285/.349. Ranked by Baseball America as the game?s No. 1 overall prospect midway through the 2010 season, many believed Brown to be ticketed for stardom. The former 20th-round pick batted .327/.391/.589 with 20 homers in just 93 games between Double-A and Triple-A in that 2010 campaign, leading to visions of future 30-home runs seasons from the powerful lefty batter. Brown looked to be delivering on that promise in 2013 when he belted 27 homers and batted a hefty .272/.324/.494 in his age-25 season, but much of that production came in a torrid six-week stretch, and he?s been unable to recreate anything resembling that level of success. He?ll assuredly draw some interest from other clubs with the hope of buying low on his once-potent bat. Brown cleared four years of big league service in 2015, meaning any team that signs him would be able to control him for 2016 and 2017, if he?s productive enough to justify a spot on the roster for that long. Making this series of moves even more disappointing for the Phillies is that Joseph, too, once ranked among their top prospects. The main piece acquired from the Giants in the trade that sent Hunter Pence to San Francisco, Joseph?s once-promising career has been slowed by injuries ? most recently a series of significant concussion issues. Joseph?s first full year in the Phillies organization was marred by injuries, but he looked to have turned a corner in 2014 when he got off to a .282/.345/.551 start in 27 games at Double-A Reading. A left wrist issue that ultimately required surgery cut that season short as well, though, and he hit just .193/.220/.301 in Triple-A this season before moving to first base due to concussion woes. The 25-year-old Dugan rated 17th among Phillies farmhands last offseason, per Baseball America, but batted just .221/.295/.298 upon reaching Triple-A for the first time this year. Bogusevic, 31, has bounced around the league since debuting with the Astros in 2010. He?s a lifetime .238/.311/.373 hitter in 834 big league plate appearances.
Think 2017 is a bit optimistic for a Phils playoff run. Yeah, they had some youth playing down the stretch, but seriously - aside from Nola, Franco, and Herrera, who looks like a foundation player?
jp crawford at ss and roman quinn in cf. and this is not counting any of the guys from the hamels trade. here's the thing axe-their new owner has deep pockets. deep ones. once the howard money is gone, he will buy the talent to win! now this is how the yankees operated for years and it sucked to see, but John Middleton is going to do it too. 2017 may be 1 yr early. 2018 for sure.
Crawford has excellent upside, no doubt. Quinn has been injury-prone, and doesn't offer a lot of pop in his bat - who exactly is going to be the big stick for the Phils? Beyond that, Nola is the only good-looking prospect at pitcher. None of the guys they got in the Hamels trade are seen as sure-fire quality starters. Are you sure that's a route he WANTS to take, though? Or is he a believer in the draft, in which case we're looking at a few more years of ineptitude.
gotta buy some guys to win. in 17 the money is flowing in South Philly. look at the Royals and Cubs...the Royals went out and got Cueto and Cubs got Lester. Hell even Texas made a run after getting Hamels. if the prospects arent working out - gotta buy guys then! and they have the top pick in the draft, the most money in the international pool to bid on players and don't forget they signed that hr hitting dominican player this year too. and 2 guys in the hamels trade should be decent. i think the 1 played this year... the catcher has to pan out.
